Let Freedom Ring lost a great friend and supporter when Jack Templeton passed away a few days ago. Any remembrance of him begins for me with an observation on the character of the man that incorporates his faith as well as his intellect, so I’ll say it this way: Jack Templeton had the purest heart,… View Article

Is Jonathan Gruber — the MIT economist who seemingly dropped out of public view after he was caught on camera bragging about how he and other Obamacare architects misled the American public — now advising the Department of Labor? No evidence indicates that he is, but the authors of DOL’s sweeping new seven-part group of… View Article

Tax day is now behind us – and we are no closer to real tax reform than we were at this time last year, or the year before, or the year before that. We have a tax code that is so complicated that literally no one can understand it. At last count, the version of… View Article

Recently, I was temporarily placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s watch list for extremism simply because I vocally support traditional marriage. I remember thinking: When did advocating for lifelong love between one man and one woman become a hate crime? Fortunately, the group saw the folly of its ways and apologized, removing me from… View Article

President Obama’s immigration policies suffered a rough week, faltering in the courts, taking fire on Capitol Hill, angering his political base and even having his own deportation chief undercut his message as he struggles to find a middle-ground path to overhaul the nation’s immigration system.

ISIS terrorists are “here in the United States,” according to House Homeland Security Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas), who believes it “would not be so difficult” for them to stage an attack. “Well, we have the foreign fighters. There are about 30,000 of them, 5,000 with Western passports. According to the DNI, Clapper, 180… View Article

Reports Thursday that the Islamic State (ISIS) trains its recruits with a manual that advocates brutality as a powerful tool for goading the West stunned Republicans, with Louisiana Rep. John Fleming telling Newsmax that the only response is “we have to go kill them.” “The ones that we’ve captured need to remain in prison until… View Article

Malcolm MacDougall, a prominent speechwriter and creative director, was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year. Even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, his insurance company delayed and denied cancer treatments despite MacDougall paying his premiums. This is his story, in his own words, written five days before he died.

The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama’s first address in 2009 — 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.